Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-23
Personal.

J. X. Whipple of founR's Hotel, Boston,
carries an insurance of $500, 900 on his life
Charles Merriam, the Webster dictionary
publisher. died at Springfield, Mass, Satur-
day, July Is
There are forty Jew millionaires in New
York. The richest is Max We'll, who is rated
at sS 000, 900.
Madame Charlotte Ernden, sister of the
dead poet Heiue, was recently visited by the
Empress of Austria.
Queen Victoria puts her hand in her pocket
to the extent of $500, 600 for her recent hos
pitslity to royal visitors.
Mile Jeanne Hugo, who is new quite grown
up, is accounted one of the most beautiful
young women in Paris society
The daughter of George w. Clark, of New
port, Ind, is ) years and three months old.
She weighs 1864 pounds, and measures three
feet around the waist.
NJ Secretion, a copper manufacturer of
Paris, owns twenty pictures by MISSIONER.
One of them-"Nspoleon Reviewing Corps
of French Csvalry"-co,t $50 900.
Nine. Nordica, widow of Mr.. Cover, of
Bell Telephone fame is coming to America at
the close of the Drury Lane season to admin
lister on her late husbands estate.
Captain Casati the italian explorer, who
il at present detained prisoner by King
Mwangs, of Uganda will be rescued by Stan
lev on his return from WadIlsi.
Lady Burdett Coutts has been received
back into Queen Vlctoris's favor Since her
marriage to her youthful husband the Baron-
ess has been persisteutlv snubbed At court.
Florence Duna, the little London school
girl who received a ring from the Queens
hand for not missing day at school for
seven years. is An Irish lsssie from Tippera-
~.
VI L'Hoste. the Frence aeronaut recently
fell vi h his balloon into the sea some leagues
away from the British coast He VAS res
cued after twenty hours struggle to keep
all 'st by passing steamer.
Rtmakuksn, the MskOiolO king who be-
triepded Livingstone in his journey down the
/ ,mo.zl. has petiuoned the English Govern
ment II take over his country. He is afraid
the Portuguese may annex it.
The monument u SIR William Wallace. re-
Gently unveiled at Sterling, ia on an emiuence
300 feet above the PLAN. The pedestal is
titv feet hlgb and On this Is a statute of the
Sco'ch hero twenty one teet high
Mr. Woolner has completed his statute of
the late Bishop Fraser, to be erected in AL
bert square. Manchester. II is of colossa al
sac and represents the lamented prelste in
ordinary dress. in an sttidude as if address.
ing meeting,
Prince Ferdinand, who has been chosen to
the Bulgarian throne, is described a an am
bltious and fearless Young man whom cares
aud troubles will not deter from accepting the
position offered 10 him He is. however.
thoughtful and cautious far beyond his wears
and will take no step without careful c0nsid-
Grafton.
Miss Van Lew, whose clerkship at Wash.
ington has been scaled down to 500 a year.
Indignantly denies that she s ineffi cient, and
saws that the chief at the Stamp Division has
treated her with great rudeness and severity
and adds thar he is an ex confederate ofic ar.
She demands a fair trial at requisition work.
Thomas Adolphus Trollope. brother Of the
late Anthony Trollope, the novelist, has de-
eided to end his days in nevonshire. For
the past thirty years he has lived in Italy as
the correspondent of the Daily News of Lon
don, and he originated the plot of "Dr.
Thorne," one of Anthony's most successful
stories. He is himself the author of several
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